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Yale southpaw Matt McCarthy (3-5) pitched a gem, blanking the Crimson for seven innings. He scattered seven hits, struck out six, and gave up only one walk.
Two years later, when Mars and Earth are again in conjunction, another spacecraft--this one carrying a crew--would be sent to join the robot ship on the surface. The astronauts could work on Mars for 18 months, living principally in their arrival craft, and then, at the end of...
Still, Drake, 70, who devised the definitive equation for calculating the possible number of technologically advanced civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy, remains convinced that he will be around when one of them calls. "We're just at the beginning of our search," says Drake, who reckons that there are...
You can guess where this argument is heading. During the Ice Ages, when our own species emerged, human populations were small and scattered and were continuously disrupted by climatic fluctuations. Conditions were ideal for genetic innovation. Today, however, the human population is 6 billion and mushrooming and increasingly densely distributed...
At the start of the 21st century, alas, all that remains of these happy visions are a few scattered cloud-seeding programs, whose modest successes, while real, have proved less than earthshaking. In fact, yesterday's sunny hopes that we could somehow change the weather for the better have given...